Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCCC9F964A for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:58:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39592-07 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:58:04 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from smtp168.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp168.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.168]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BAA9F965E for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:58:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from relay6.relay.iad.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.relay.iad.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8C0A16CF63F; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by relay6.relay.iad.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: chander-AT-otg-nc.com) with ESMTP id 0FAA66CF61E; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <472D5EF4.7020900@otg-nc.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:56:04 -0400 From: Chander Ganesan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Kevin Hunter , "Joshua D. Drake" , Dave Page , Postgres WWW List , Peter Eisentraut Subject: Re: Training events policy ... first test case References: <200711031703310000@114527600> <20071103142105.2d29bc1b@scratch> <472D02A3.1070404@postgresql.org> <20071103205146.63a6997c@scratch> <472D505C.8010009@earlham.edu> <5652.1194152441@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <5652.1194152441@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040600060600060204090708" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/86 X-Sequence-Number: 12864 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040600060600060204090708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Hunter writes: > >> Or perhaps: >> > > >> In the next six months, there are 21 events in 4 countries >> from 13 different companies. >> > > +1, especially if the number of companies is noticeably more than > three-or-four. > I'm still opposed to event spam..which everyone seems to conveniently ignore when I bring it up. :-( . How about trying to limit the number of events that a company can have on the list at a time? Say a maximum of 5 events listed at a time? That's fairly even handed, and would force folks to post courses that they would consider would have some likelihood of running? -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 Phone: 877-258-8987/919-463-0999 http://www.otg-nc.com --------------040600060600060204090708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Lane wrote:

Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> writes:

Or perhaps:

In the next six months, there are <link>21 events</link> in 4 countries
from 13 different companies.


+1, especially if the number of companies is noticeably more than
three-or-four.

I'm still opposed to event spam..which everyone seems to conveniently ignore when I bring it up. :-( .

How about trying to limit the number of events that a company can have on the list at a time? Say a maximum of 5 events listed at a time? That's fairly even handed, and would force folks to post courses that they would consider would have some likelihood of running?

-- 
Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC  27560
Phone: 877-258-8987/919-463-0999
http://www.otg-nc.com

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